Re: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website

2012-01-28 Thread Jerry Barnes
> Where is the original link ? somehow the opening email didn't come through for me. IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website ( http://gcn.com/articles/2012/01/18/irs-spending-320m-on-website-improvements.aspx ) As the Internal Revenue Service begins accepting returns this week for

Re: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website

2012-01-27 Thread Matt Blatchley
gt; -Original Message- > From: Vivec [mailto:gel21...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:02 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website > > > Even to get a piece of it through Sub Contracts would be awesome. > And with a c

RE: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website

2012-01-27 Thread Scott Raley
Where is the original link ? somehow the opening email didn't come through for me. -Original Message- From: Vivec [mailto:gel21...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:02 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website Even to get a piece

RE: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website

2012-01-26 Thread Eric Roberts
That's how the Bush admin operated with the contracts for Iraq... -Original Message- From: Jerry Barnes [mailto:critic...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:54 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website If I were a suspicious person, I&

RE: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website

2012-01-26 Thread Scott Raley
No it could go 5 yrs with 2 option years. That as far as I know is the max. -Original Message- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:10 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website Don't they have to rebid every 2

Re: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website

2012-01-26 Thread Jerry Barnes
If I were a suspicious person, I'd say that the winners of the contracts were know before the ink dried on the proposal. Of course the work will then be subcontracted out to India, . . . Anyway, no one thinks 320 million is excessive? It's not like you all are strangers to the industry and don'

Re: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website

2012-01-26 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Sam wrote: > Don't they have to rebid every 2 or 3 years? My first thought was that it would get a lobotomy every 4 years. Or 8, for two term presidents. -Cameron ... ~| Order the Adobe Co

Re: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website

2012-01-26 Thread Sam
Don't they have to rebid every 2 or 3 years? . On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Vivec wrote: > > Even to get a piece of it through Sub Contracts would be awesome. > And with a contract such as this that has a definite lifespan, you know you > in work for at least a 10 years :-) > > This is a co

Re: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website

2012-01-26 Thread Vivec
Even to get a piece of it through Sub Contracts would be awesome. And with a contract such as this that has a definite lifespan, you know you in work for at least a 10 years :-) This is a contract that some companies could literally run off of. On 26 January 2012 15:16, Larry C. Lyons wrote: >

Re: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website

2012-01-26 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Almost a guarantee that Boeing, Lockheed, or Booze-Hamilton will get it (the big ones in this area who also do web sites). I doubt if any of the smaller companies (like CGI or ICF) would get it except as a sub contract. But no bets on the gold plating etc. that's how the big government contractor

Re: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website

2012-01-26 Thread PT
Nonsense. There is no way some agency is going to spend 320 million dollars without knowing how the money is going to be spent and on what, and when. But .. 10 years? A bunch of the money better go to future proofing, otherwise by the time they finish, the technology they started with will

Re: IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website

2012-01-26 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > The IRS plans to spend $320 million over 10 years to improve its website, > but the agency's plans on how exactly it will do that remain unclear, > according to a government watchdog agency. I'd fully expect step one of any overhaul of th

IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website

2012-01-26 Thread Jerry Barnes
IRS coughs up $320M to overhaul website ( http://gcn.com/articles/2012/01/18/irs-spending-320m-on-website-improvements.aspx) As the Internal Revenue Service begins accepting returns this week for the 2012 tax season, the agency has begun a $320 million upgrade over 10 years to improve its